[...]... releases of Windows server- based OSs, and has become a reliable and applicable solution in your network infrastructure If you plan to design an NT cluster, be aware that NT Server 4.0 doesn’t support clustering, but it will work with load balancing Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition will work with load balancing and can be clustered with two nodes 9 10 Windows Server 2003 Clustering & Load Balancing WINDOWS. ..x Windows Server 2003 Clustering & Load Balancing Configuring and Troubleshooting the Cluster Service New Command Line Tools Windows Server 2003 Cluster Tips Designing a NLB Solution with Windows Server 2003 Where to Begin The Design Phase Initial NLB Planning and Readiness Assessment Windows Server 2003 NLB Software... Server, which allows not only clustering and load balancing, but also more flexibility to do it with by allowing four clustered nodes, instead of the limit of two with Advanced Server Important design tips to remember are the following: when clustering and load balancing with Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Server won’t support clustering and load balancing unless Application Center 2000 is installed; Windows. .. immediately Let’s look at where Server 2003 is going with clustering and load balancing Server 2003 Clustering Enhancements First, your clustered node count went up In Windows 2000 Advanced Server, you were locked down to a two-node cluster, but Server 2003 Enterprise version will allow for four-node clusters (Datacenter Server moves up to eight nodes) Also new to Server 2003 17 ... 2000 Advanced Server will support a two node cluster and load balancing; and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server will support a four-node cluster and load balancing To understand Microsoft’s position on this service, you should know Microsoft offers four types of clustering services With Windows 2000, you have the Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS), network load balancing (NLB), component load balancing (CLB),... customized with Port Rules, which are used to specify load weight and priority In Chapter 2, you learn about port assignments and affinity when you configure NLB on Windows 2000 Advanced Server Chapter 1: Introduction to High Availability, Clustering, and Load- Balancing Technologies SERVER 2003 CLUSTERING AND LOAD BALANCING With the upcoming release of Server 2003 on the horizon, now’s the time to start thinking... Availability, Clustering, and Load- Balancing Technologies Scaling your systems out CLUSTERING WITH NT 4.0 Before you get into the high-level overview of clustering and load balancing with Windows 2000 and the Server 2003 platforms, you should know where this all started I won’t go over the history of clustering and how Microsoft got involved, but I’ll give you an overview on why Windows 2000 clustering. .. 2000, you could find that failover and failback might not always work This is important to anyone who wants to run a SQL Server cluster Figure 1-7 Configuring failover clustering 11 12 Windows Server 2003 Clustering & Load Balancing Stateless vs Stateful Clustering Windows 2000 clustering functions as stateful, which means the application state and user state are managed during and through the failover... rolling upgrade in Chapter 2 of this book Network Load Balancing Windows 2000 allows for load balancing of services as well As just discussed, in an Active/Active cluster, you have load- balancing functionality Another form of load balancing exists, though, which is if you have one IP address for an entire load- balanced cluster (with Windows 2000 Advanced Server, this scales to 32 nodes) and, using an... you an idea of your options Finally, you have the option to set up tiered access to services and to mix both architectures 5 6 Windows Server 2003 Clustering & Load Balancing (clustering and load balancing) together You can set up the first tier of access to your web servers as load balanced and the last tier of access as your clustered SQL databases This is explained in more detail in the upcoming section . Companies, Inc. Click Here for Terms of Use. viii Windows Server 2003 Clustering & Load Balancing OsbNetw / Windows Server 2003 Clustering & Load Balancing / Shimonski/ 222622-6 / Front Matter N-Tier. printer profile Composite Default screen x Windows Server 2003 Clustering & Load Balancing OsbNetw / Windows Server 2003 Clustering & Load Balancing / Shimonski/ 222622-6 / Front Matter Configuring. 25, 2003 12:08:38 PM Color profile: Generic CMYK printer profile Composite Default screen xii Windows Server 2003 Clustering & Load Balancing OsbNetw / Windows Server 2003 Clustering & Load